Life, Death and Myth: Rupert Brooke - Jones, Nigel
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A candid and sometimes shocking biography of Rupert Brooke, revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy facade of an English literary icon. This revised edition of the iconoclastic portrait contains a new chapter on a previously unknown affair.
Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing.
But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in…mehr

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A candid and sometimes shocking biography of Rupert Brooke, revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy facade of an English literary icon. This revised edition of the iconoclastic portrait contains a new chapter on a previously unknown affair.
Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing.

But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic - and sometimes alarmingly unstable.

This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.
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Nigel Jones
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'Intelligent, witty and definitive: this is literary biography at its best' Andrew Roberts